Music Notes: Summer Mixtape 2016
Bad Grades, Something to Do, Soul Low and more. Your 2016 Summer Mixtape has arrived.
CHVRCHES Brings Synth-Pop to the Riverside Theater This Weekend
CHVRCHES, Scallops Hotel and more. Plus this week’s live music calendar.
Milwaukee Film Festival: Five Flicks for Music Fans
From Sharon Jones to The Talking Heads, here are five flicks for music lovers to check out at this year’s Milwaukee Film Festival.
70 Bands Play for Arts Education
A Q&A with the organizer of Arte Para Todos.
Hozier, Solids and Tenement
Plus TV Girl, Animals in Human Attire, Kacey Musgraves, Single Mothers and Swami John Reis.
Sleater-Kinney and All Messed Up V
Plus Glen Hansard, Piles and Fleetwood Mac. It’s a great week in local shows.
The Black Keys and Bay View Bash
Monday, September 8: Glass Animals with Rome Fortune at Turner Hall Ballroom, 7 p.m. ($12) Paul Epworth, the British producer behind massive UK muscians Coldplay, Adele, Paul McCartney and burgeoning stars like FKA Twigs and Foster the People, started his own record label and made his first signing the electro-pop four-piece Glass Animals. The band couldn’t live up to those lofty expectations on their debut full-length, Zaba, a glitchy, sterilized affair that sounded like a band still trying to find its style. But the Oxford chaps, nonetheless, showed promise, and if anything, you can’t find a dance party this psychedelic…
Top Ten for August
August constituted a mammoth month for Milwaukee album releases. There seemed to be four or five record release shows every weekend. Read about a few of those records and other notable local happenings below in Music Notes’ top picks from August. 10. SIN BAD presents promising pop-punk future I stumbled upon a really good (and really rough) demo while searching through the independent music streaming crapshoot Bandcamp earlier this month. It’s a snappy, 7-song release from former members of Modern Machines, who now go by SIN BAD (and recently played Cactus Club a couple weeks ago with No. 6 pick,…
Sylvan Esso Journey and Midnight Reruns
Sylvan Esso photo by Elizabeth Weinberg. Monday, September 1: Kingmaker, After Hour Animals, Gravemind, Audacity, Township and Teenagers at Borg Ward, 4:30 p.m. ($5) – (823 W. National Ave.) Tuesday, September 2: Sweet Talk with Midnight Reruns and Platinum Boys at Quarters Rock ‘n Roll Palace, 9 p.m. ($5) A day removed from one of the summer’s biggest backyard barbeque holidays, the bill at Quarters on Tuesday night keeps that beer swillin’ laissez faire attitude rolling with sets from two locals Midnight Reruns and Platinum Boys and one Austin-based band (Sweet Talk). All three can deliver good meaty hooks and…
Old Earth Twin Brother and More
Monday, August 25: Wild Child with Mystic Inane, Midwives, Foreign Lawns and Eaten By Trees at Quarters Rock ‘n Roll Palace, 9 p.m.. – (900 E. Center St.) Tuesday, August 26: Desert Noises at the Marcus Center’s Peck Pavilion, 7:30 p.m. ($8) The Provo, Utah four-piece Desert Noises immediately brings to mind the celestial folk of Band of Horses, largely due to Kyle Henderson’s ethereal, reverb-laden voice. However, that oft-made comparison fails to highlight Desert Noises’ slower burning psychedelia that seeps through the cracks on the band’s sophomore effort 27 Ways. (929 N. Water St., MarcusCenter.org) Wednesday, August 27: Keefe…